Rev. Augustine Mulliner
The Rev. Augustine Mulliner is a recurring fictional character from the Mr Mulliner short stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a Mulliner nephew who rose from meek curate to married vicar thanks to the Buck-U-Uppo tonic.
Starting as a timid, pale young curate at Lower Briskett-in-the-Midden, he went on to marry his vicar's daughter Jane Brandon (Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo). He became secretary to the Bishop of Stortford ("The Bishop's Move"). Augustine then became the vicar of Walsingford-below-Chiveney-on-Thames ("Gala Night"). His rise through the ranks of the Church of England was partially due to his uncle Wilfred's tonic Buck-U-Uppo.
According to N. T. P. Murphy, Augustine is similar to the "pale young curate" in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer.[1] Victoria McLure notes that Augustine endears himself to the reader because he is an underdog among the clerical caste, and because he must fight his prospective father-in-law "to gain enough money and enough respect to marry".[2]
He was played by John Alderton in the Wodehouse Playhouse series.[3]
References
- ↑ Murphy, N. T. P. (2015). P.G. Wodehouse Miscellany. The History Press. p. 40. Retrieved 11 November 2022. Search this book on
- ↑ McLure, Victoria E. (1996). "Wodehouse, P. G.". Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, Volume 1. Taylor & Francis. p. 1219. Retrieved 11 November 2022. Search this book on
- ↑ Taves, Brian (2015). P.G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations. McFarland & Company. p. 187. Retrieved 21 November 2022. Search this book on
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